Jinyang Newsletter On August 15th, Guiyang Wenshi Magazine held a symposium to conduct research on the Guizhou tourism handicraft market. The news survey was informed that the "Chinese Zodiac Masked Crafts" produced by the famous Sui culture artist Jin Guohua was popular in the Guiyang tourism market. Masked arts and crafts are the crystallization of ancient Yelang culture in Guizhou and Gutianmun military culture in Ming dynasty. Masks are props used in gong sacrifices and funerals in pipa culture. They are reproductions of original ecological totems and are symbols of auspiciousness for disasters. . The skull mask has undergone changes from primitive god worship to entertaining gods and entertaining people, with the qualities of religious art and the characteristics of folk art. It was circulated and produced in the Central Yunnan region. Taking the warrior mask of the cold weapon era as a theme, it developed a variety of animal images and used it as a prop for the national drama.
Jin Guohua is a folk artist in Suizhong. He was introduced to Guiyang by Guiyang Culture Bureau in the 1980s. He once displayed his works at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and performed Guizhou ethnic sculpture performances and handicrafts exhibitions in Europe and the Americas. In order to display Guizhou ancient culture and art works at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the National Guild of Nations in Guiyang in 2011, he specifically designed the “Zodiac Lian Noodles Crafts†to allow guests to collect according to their own zodiac signs. This idea is applying for trademark protection.